MATS66602
Corrosion Control for Oilfield and Renewable Energy
15
Semester 2
Postgraduate Taught
Level 7
Robert Lindsay
Unit coordinator
1
FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Masters/Integrated Masters P4 '
European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 7.5
<p>This unit provides engineering knowledge of oilfield corrosion. Students will learn about the mechanisms underpinning relevant corrosion, as well as other degradation processes, along with practical approaches to minimise facility degradation. Specific topics include: types of oilfield equipment; sweet/sour corrosion; seawater corrosion; scaling; erosion; corrosion prediction; corrosion inhibition; corrosion management; failure analysis.</p>
<p>This unit provides engineering knowledge of oilfield corrosion. Students will learn about the mechanisms underpinning relevant corrosion, as well as other degradation processes, along with practical approaches to minimise facility degradation. Specific topics include: types of oilfield equipment; sweet/sour corrosion; seawater corrosion; scaling; erosion; corrosion prediction; corrosion inhibition; corrosion management; failure analysis.</p>
<p>Students will learn about the mechanisms underpinning relevant corrosion phenomena, as well as other degradation processes, along with practical approaches to minimise material/component degradation. Specific topics include:</p><ul> <li>Sweet & Sour Corrosion;</li> <li>Erosion & Scaling;</li> <li>Corrosion Prediction;</li> <li>Corrosion Inhibition;</li> <li>Corrosion Management & Failure Analysis.</li></ul><p>In addition, the unit will provide you with the opportunity to develop your team work and technical presentation skills through an assessed case study concerning pipeline design.</p>
<p>A greater depth of the learning outcomes will be covered in the following sections:</p>
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Knowledge and understanding</li>
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Intellectual skills</li>
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Practical skills</li>
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Transferable skills and personal qualities</li>
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<ul> <li>Outline the economic/societal importance of oil and gas production</li> <li>Describe oil/gas sources, along with materials, equipment and processes employed during their extraction.</li> <li>Explain the factors that determine internal/external oilfield corrosion.</li> <li>Discuss other important oilfield degradation processes.</li> <li>Evaluate approaches to controlling/managing oilfield corrosion and other degradation phenomena.</li> <li>Review corrosion inhibitor mechanisms and their practical application.</li></ul>
<ul> <li>Calculate corrosion inhibition efficiency and availability.</li> <li>Predict oilfield corrosion rates employing pertinent environmental parameters and equations/models.</li></ul>
<p>Prepare slides for a technical presentation</p>
<ul> <li>Use appropriate vocabulary to answer technical questions.</li> <li>Operate as an effective team member.</li> <li>Justify technical arguments in a clear fashion.</li></ul>
<div> <p>Lectures and online activity, including guest lectures to increase industrial relevance; Case Studies, including group activity (preparation and delivery of 15 min presentation); Tutorials</p></div><p> </p>
1
Written exam
70%
2
Written assignment (inc essay)
10%
7
Oral assessment/presentation
20%
<p>Feedback given (written and verbal)</p>
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<p>Various chapters of Vol.4 of Shreir’s Corrosion, 4th edition, including:</p><p>4.25 Introduction to Control of Corrosion by Environmental Modification<br />4.26 Chemical Treating in Oil and Gas Production<br />4.41 Management of Corrosion in the Oil and Gas Industry</p>
Lectures
30
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120